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  • From $1-Million Lotteries to Free Beer: Do COVID Vaccination Incentives Work?

    June 17, 2021 |

    Scientific American |

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    Response Location: United States, Ohio

    Several states are offering incentives to encourage people to get vaccinated against COVID-19. Ohio’s Vax-a-Million program was one of the first state-based cash lotteries, awarding five residents over 18 a $1-million prize and five full college scholarships to residents ages 12-17. Vaccination rates jumped 28% in the first week of the program. Other states have looked to boost vaccination rates by offering creative incentives in addition to cash lotteries, including prepaid grocery and subway cards, tickets to local attractions, hunting rifles, free beer, and even cannabis joints in Washington state.

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  • Sustaining the Work of Artists With a Living Wage and Benefits In Western Massachusetts

    June 09, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Massachusetts

    Artists at Work is a pilot project of THE OFFICE performing arts + film that paired artists with cultural and community partners to work on local initiatives. For their work, the artists were paid a living wage, including healthcare, which resulted in responses to issues like youth mental health, food justice, and COVID-19 awareness campaigns in communities that are marginalized. From empowering youth to build community through food and farming to engaging young queer people of color, the successful six-month pilot led to a new fundraising campaign to continue and expand to seven regions across the U.S.

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  • For Black Voters Matter, the goal is greater community power

    June 02, 2021 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States, Georgia

    Black Voters Matter raises money to support organizations and initiatives that are often too small for institutional funders to notice. The group has given millions to community-based groups in 15 states—mostly in the South—to register voters, canvass neighborhoods with voting-related information, run phone banks, and even rent buses to drive people to the polls. They’ve raised tens of millions of dollars, mostly in small donations from about 90,000 unique donors. The group, who seeks to strengthen organizations for the long run, also funds activities like free grocery distribution for those in need.

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  • Seminary Built on Slavery and Jim Crow Labor Has Begun Paying Reparations

    May 31, 2021 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Alexandria, Virginia

    The Virginia Theological Seminary is giving cash to descendants of Black Americans forced to work there during slavery and Jim Crow. Annual payments, taken from a fund set to grow at a sustainable rate, will go to the closest direct descendant of each Black worker. Fifteen descendants have received payments so far, but that number will likely grow as genealogists continue to search through records. The payments, along with efforts to build relationships with the families, are the Seminary’s way of acknowledging their role in the exploitation and recognizing the contributions of those forced to work there.

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  • What to Do With Piles of Plastic Waste?

    May 10, 2021 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: Malawi, Lilongwe

    From collecting plastic to transforming it into infrastructure, communities all over the world are implementing solutions to tackle the growing amount of plastic waste. In Malawi, women are separating garbage from plastic and creating new products like fire briquettes, doormats, and organic compost that they can sell to others. A town in Tasmania turned their plastic waste into a road made of recycled asphalt that is expected to last 15 percent longer than regular asphalt. And Zimbabwe is employing youth to recycle plastic into eco-friendly construction materials.

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  • A Canadian study gave $7,500 to homeless people. Here's how they spent it.

    May 07, 2021 |

    Vox |

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    Response Location: Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia

    A lump sum of $7,500 was handed out to people experience homelessness in Vancouver as an experiment. The results show that recipients benefitted by accessing stable housing faster and eventually achieving financial stability sooner, in addition to spending less money on alcohol, tobacco, and drugs.

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  • The Atlanta BeltLine Wants to Prevent Displacement of Longtime Residents. Is it Too Late?

    May 04, 2021 |

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    Response Location: United States, Atlanta, Georgia

    The Legacy Resident Retention program is helping longtime homeowners remain in their homes despite rising taxes and property values in Atlanta, Georgia. The program aims to mitigate gentrification and displacement as a result of the Atlanta Beltline development and has helped 21 families by covering the cost of increased property taxes.

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  • National bail fund to expand in the Deep South

    May 04, 2021 |

    Associated Press |

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    Response Location: United States

    Since 2018, The Bail Project has turned $41 million in donated money into cash bail to free more than 15,500 people in dozens of cities from pretrial detention. The project grew out of the work of Bronx Defenders, which saw over a decade the people it bailed out nearly all showed up for court dates and most did not get into new trouble while out of jail. Now the Bail Project is expanding with new offices in four Southern states, a reflection of the region's high incarceration rates and racial disparities. In the campaign to end cash bail as a penalty for poverty, bail funds serve as a stopgap.

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  • Cash payments spread from Congress to Stockton to Brazil — but notion of ‘universal basic income' far from reality

    April 22, 2021 |

    The Washington Post |

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    Response Location: United States, Stockton, California

    Guaranteed income is gaining popularity across the world. In Stockton, California, monthly cash payments boosted mental and physical health and increased full-time employment levels. The idea has spread to dozens of other cities and a group, Mayors for a Guaranteed Income, is providing funding and guidance for leaders to enact similar programs in their cities.

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  • A collaboration of local orgs is working to boost minority-owned businesses in Kensington

    April 05, 2021 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Four local organizations have teamed up to provide $15 million in loans for the Latinx community in the Kensington neighborhood of Philadelphia. The affordable loans have gone to affordable housing, small businesses, residential mortgages, and development projects.

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